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Barbot, Baptiste; Lubart, Todd I.; Besançon, Maud – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2016
This article reviews developmental studies of creativity in children and adolescents with a focus on "peaks" and "slumps" that have often been described in the literature. The irregularity of the development of creativity is interpreted in light of conceptual and measurement issues and with regard to the interaction between…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Creativity, Child Development, Adolescent Development
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Preiss, David D.; Grau, Valeska; Ortiz, Dominga; Bernardino, Michelle – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2016
We review recent research about the development of creativity in South America focusing on studies of individual differences in creativity and educational and developmental studies of children and adolescents' creativity. Most South American researchers are influenced by mainstream psychometric approaches, although computational and cultural…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Creativity, Individual Differences, Children
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Runco, Mark A. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2016
The articles in this issue of "New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development" nicely summarize recent findings about creativity and development. This commentary underscores some of the key ideas and puts them into a larger context (i.e., the corpus of creativity research). It pinpoints areas of agreement (e.g., the need to take…
Descriptors: Creativity, Child Development, Adolescent Development, Creative Development
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Kleibeuker, Sietske W.; De Dreu, Carsten K. W.; Crone, Eveline A. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2016
Creativity is a multifaceted construct that recruits different cognitive processes. Here, we summarize studies that show that creativity develops considerably during adolescence with different developmental trajectories for insight, verbal divergent thinking, and visuospatial divergent thinking. Next, these developmental time courses are mapped to…
Descriptors: Creativity, Creative Development, Adolescents, Adolescent Development